Harvester (Big Jewelcase)

Harvester is a point-and-click adventure computer game written and directed by Gilbert P. Austin. The game was designed by DigiFX Interactive and published by Merit Studios in 1996. On March 6, 2014, Lee Jacobson re-released it in GOG.com, for PC and Mac. On April 4, 2014, Night Dive Studios re-released it in Steam for PC and Linux. Harvester was first announced to public at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 1994 in Las Vegas. The dark and blasphemous content of the game drew a huge amount of attention and created a lot of expectations. The writer/director Gilbert P. Austin was against any kind of censorship and he wanted the game to serve as an examination of the controversy about whether violence in media creates, or is created by, violence in society. Austin finished the creative work in autumn 1994 and moved on to the other projects. The game was supposed to be released during the same year but for some reason it took two more years to finish the programming. The delay was fatal and Harvester was a commercial failure. However the game managed to cause controversy. In Europe the scene where kids were eating their mother was censored and in Germany the game was banned. Today Harvester is known for its cult following. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtjAsQIPauY